A quick note to Welcome Jameel Haffejee (email) to Thinkst. Some of you might remember him as “the guy who did the Power Shell talk at Zacon2”.. (The talk was cool, but (in truth) I remember him as the guy that sponsored the coffee!) Jameel has signed up as a Developer and future world-denter, so you should be reading more of him here soon.. Hello World! …
Month: January 2011
In the movie Sneakers, there is a defining moment when Robert Redford rearranges Scrabble tiles to figure out that ‘SETEC ASTRONOMY’ is actually an anagram. With this in mind, I give you: SETEC CONFER MOAN (Yo!) (Click for full size) I’m not saying that InfoSec Conferences are bad (although many a battered liver would disagree), but what i am saying is that we don’t seem to be improving our security posture at the same rate as we seem to be …
On January 6th, Apple launched their Mac App Store. Pundits have taken pretty polarizing views on the store, with some hailing it as a boon to indie developers (since they can (trivially) publish to a world stage without worrying about credit card transactions) while others say that this is yet another way for Apple to exert big brother type control. I think it’s a healthy dose of both. As I mentioned in the past, Apple does have an amazing ability …